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Website Accessibility Checklists

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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

What is website accessibility all about, you ask? Simply put, it is constructing your site in such a way that visitors with disabilities can access your web content. What happens when someone using a screen reader encounters that mind-blowing graphical banner that your designer created? Is there an awkward pause, or does your page handle the situation gracefully and keep the conversation going?

The checklists below offer a set of standards and best practices that will put you well on your way to ensuring that your site’s content is available to as wide an audience as possible. As an added bonus, making your site accessible helps improve SEO as well as the experience of users with mobile devices.

Accessibility Checklists:

A Basic Checklist

W3C- An Authoritative List

Sec. 508 Checklist- It’s actually law in some cases